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“bryant jensen”

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  • The Students We Share

    Preparing US and Mexican Educators for Our Transnational Future

    Edited by Patricia Gándara, Bryant Jensen ...
    Examines policies, norms, and classroom practices of the US and Mexican education systems, with the aim of preparing educators to understand and help transnational children and youth.Millions of students in the US and Mexico begin their educations in one country and find themselves trying to integrate into the school system of the other. As global migration increases, their numbers are expected to ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

  • Regarding Educacion

    Mexican-American Schooling, Immigration, and Bi-national Improvement

    by Bryant Jensen, Adam Sawyer ...
    The “Latino Education Crisis” not only threatens to dash the middle class aspirations of the nation’s largest immigrant group, it is also an ominous sign for democratic engagement and global competitiveness for U.S. society as a whole. This timely book argues that this crisis is more aptly characterized as a “Mexican Education Crisis.” This book brings together voices that are rarely heard on the ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

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    by Gilbert R. Cadena, Janie Filoteo, Elizabeth Flores, Lara Medina, Robert P. Moreno, Maria C. Morales, Gilda L. Ochoa, Eric Romero, Rogelio Saenz, Armando Trujillo, Elsa O. Valdez, Raul H. Villa ...
    This book deals with a broad range of social issues facing Mexican-origin people in the United States. The studies presented in this volume are brought together by two main themes: (1) social inequalities-cultural, educational, and economic-endured by the Chicano/Mexicano community in the United States and (2) the community's efforts to eradicate the source of those inequalities.The second edition ... Read more

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  • Are Mexican Immigrant and Mexican American Female Victims of Intimate Partner Violence Being Served in Memphis, Tennessee?

    Support Services for Victims of Intimate Partner Violence Among Mexican Immigrant and Mexican American Women in Memphis, Tennessee

    by M. Helena Vanderlei Collins ...
    Domestic violence against women is an oppressive condition that extends across race, class, and gender. This work examines intimate partner violence against women in Memphis, Tennessee, focusing on Mexican immigrant and Mexican American female survivors of domestic violence.Author M. Helena Vanderlei Collins interviewed ten Mexican immigrant women and seven Mexican American women to investigate ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • High-Risk Feminism in Colombia

    Women's Mobilization in Violent Contexts

    by Julia Margaret Zulver ...
    High-Risk Fe**minism in Colombia documents the experiences of grassroots women’s organizations that united to demand gender justice during and in the aftermath of Colombia’s armed conflict. In doing so, it illustrates a little-studied phenomenon: women whose experiences with violence catalyze them to mobilize and resist as feminists, even in the face of grave danger. Despite a well-established ... Read more

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  • Cuba’s Academic Advantage

    Why Students in Cuba Do Better in School

    by Martin Carnoy ...
    In this book, Martin Carnoy explores the surprising success of the Cuban educational system, where the average elementary school student learns much more than her Latin American peers. In developing the case for Cuba's supportive social context and centralized management of education, Carnoy asks important questions about educational systems in general. How responsible should government be for ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

  • The Kids Are in Charge

    Activism and Power in Peru's Movement of Working Children

    by Jessica K. Taft ...
    Series Book 2 - Critical Perspectives on Youth
    Details the possibilities and challenges of intergenerational activism and social movementsSince 1976, the Peruvian movement of working children has fought to redefine age-based roles in society, including defending children’s right to work. In The Kids Are in Charge, Jessica K. Taft gives us an inside look at this groundbreaking, intergenerational social movement, showing that kids can—and should ... Read more

    $24.69 USD

  • Latino Politics en Ciencia Política

    The Search for Latino Identity and Racial Consciousness

    by Tony Affigne, Evelyn Hu-DeHart, Marion Orr ...
    A "collection of cutting-edge research" on the political diversity of Latino communities: "a must-read for students and researchers alike" ( American Politics).Latinos constitute the largest, fastest-growing, and most diverse minority group in the United States. A critical voting bloc in both Presidential and Congressional races, this demographic will only become more important in future American ... Read more

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  • Race Migrations

    Latinos and the Cultural Transformation of Race

    by Wendy Roth ...
    In this groundbreaking study of Puerto Rican and Dominican migration to the United States, Wendy D. Roth explores the influence of migration on changing cultural conceptions of race—for the newcomers, for their host society, and for those who remain in the countries left behind. Just as migrants can gain new language proficiencies, they can pick up new understandings of race. But adopting an ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • English Language Teaching in South America

    Policy, Preparation and Practices

    Edited by Lía D. Kamhi-Stein, Gabriel Díaz Maggioli, Luciana C. de Oliveira ...
    Series Book 109 - Bilingual Education & Bilingualism
    This book investigates new English language policies and initiatives which have been introduced and implemented across Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Uruguay and Venezuela. Chapters are organized around three themes. Chapters in the first section critically examine newly-implemented English language policies, as well as factors that contribute to and prevent the implementation of ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • Care Across Generations

    Solidarity and Sacrifice in Transnational Families

    by Kristin E. Yarris ...
    Global inequalities make it difficult for parents in developing nations to provide for their children. Some determine that migration in search of higher wages is their only hope. Many studies have looked at how migration transforms the child–parent relationship. But what happens to other generational relationships when mothers migrate?Care Across Generations takes a close look at grandmother care ... Read more

    $18.79 USD

  • Latinos in American Society

    Families and Communities in Transition

    by Ruth Enid Zambrana ...
    It is well known that Latinos in the United States bear a disproportionate burden of low educational attainment, high residential segregation, and low visibility in the national political landscape. In Latinos in American Society, Ruth Enid Zambrana brings together the latest research on Latinos in the United States to demonstrate how national origin, age, gender, socioeconomic status, and ... Read more

    $28.49 USD